Sentences with phrase «image of the city»

With a little imagination it's possible to form a complete image of this city as it must have looked like almost 2,000 years ago.
The artist is most famous for his early images of the city life and landscapes.
Don't think its going to change the city that gets the headquarters in the way that a new industry would but it will change the dynamic and image of the city somewhat.
Near Union Square (on Stockton Street, between Post and Sutter Streets), she created a fountain for which she mobilized 200 schoolchildren to mold hundreds of images of the city of San Francisco in dough, which were then cast in iron.
Here the text is paired with images of the City of London that Banner commissioned from Magnum conflict photographer Paolo Pellegrin.
Having traveled numerous times in his life through this town to visit family in Peru, the artist recalled his own experiences there through found - images of the city in an online travel blog and began to marry these candid photographs with his interest in Latin American modernist and public sculpture.
Detailed images of the city by Guardian photographer David Levene are the focus of a show at Walthamstow Village Window Gallery.
Each illustration is unique, with subjects as varied as the countries themselves: aerial, wide - angle images of cities; street scenes; up - close images of statues and vignettes; decorative details; and famous landmarks are all represented to varying degrees in the book.
Another event in Edinburgh is the Edinburgh Military Tattoo which is an iconic image of the city with kilted pipers and military bands performing in front of the spectacular Edinburgh Castle.
Mission Bay is noted for its comprehensive views of the diversity San Diego has to offer, including breath - taking images of the city, the beach, and the mountains.
When divers off the Greek island of Zakynthos chanced upon an underwater labyrinth of stone several years ago, they encountered eerie scenes reminiscent of cobblestone floors and the bases of Hellenic - like colonnades, conjuring images of a city that had vanished beneath the waves thousands of years in the past.
Notwithstanding some allusions to «Lady and the Tramp,» the characters and their comic high jinks are nothing special, but the the getaway gives us spectacular 3 - D images of the city.
Walkabout's first five minutes tell you everything while saying nothing: images of the city overlaid with aboriginal music, breathing exercises at a girls» school that complement the native sounds, an oasis of parkland in the urban sprawl, a lone tree in a concrete square, a patch of swimming - pool blue in an apartment block contrasted with the white - hot nothingness of the outback.
Funded by a large donation from a local businessman, Boston's school officials have begun a massive public - relations campaign designed to improve the public image of the city's public schools.
However, in line with the overall image of the city, the citadel injects French influence on the city, with lines greatly inspired by the plans of Vauban, a French military architect.
At Cerros, Structure 5 is a small building in the core zone of the site with stucco images of the city's rulers on its facade.
Reaction: Great news for Rosarito Beach and Mayor Hugo Torres, who worked so hard trying to improve the tarnished image of a city that was, just a few years ago, a bustling, carefree destination for traveling surfers, fishermen and tourists merely out to party and play in a Mexican atmosphere not far beyond the border.
Going further, he said that while the incorporation is not conscious, the imagery reflects a»... saturated image of this city, and not an observation of what I saw.»
As a first - time visitor to the United States, Cheng approaches New York already familiar with iconic and cinematic images of the city, simultaneously intending to find and capture what is typically excluded from such views.
What could have, from a distance, been recognised as an aerial image of a city disintegrates into abstract lines and areas when seen close - up.
As he postulates his past experiences, Pescador looks to television sitcoms in which characters are forced to learn to how to take care of themselves in the «real world,» invoking the Hollywood fantasy of youth as played out in one's 20s and the fantasy image of the city of Los Angeles constructed through cinema.
Rickards» two - screen film is based on spoken accounts of a displaced image of a city seen over Lake Michigan as the result of rare temperature inversion mirages.
The prints in the exhibition are primarily representational and include urban and rural images of city billboards, shop windows, misty waterfalls, and dramatic cliffs to name a few.
If America once borrowed the Biblical image of a city on a hill, this is a small hill indeed.
The liberal beliefs, social tolerance, and general promiscuity that characterize popular images of the city likewise distinguish the Los Angeles — based artist's own permissive practice, which swings from abstract paintings to collages and from haunted - house sculptures to a series of narrative paintings depicting sexually ambiguous men whom Hawkins refers to as «hallucinations from a Viagra overdose.»
John Little is a Canadian artist best known for his urban images of the city of Montreal in oils, in the Fauvist style.
The artist will spend a week at Pratt Institute, the world - famous college of art, design, and architecture, where he will create an 18 - foot - long image of the city from memory.
In 1926, Neel had a baby, and the couple moved to Havana, where Neel painted images of the city's poor.
Artists devised innovative styles and subject matter to embody such experiences, including images of the city and its entertainments, the unconscious mind and charged inner feelings, and the formal and material properties of art itself.
«The stereotype of America is New York, a place for opportunities,» said Capote, who, after seeing paintings of New York by Edward Hopper, Joseph Stella, and Georgia O'Keeffe during his first visit, wanted to make his own images of the city as an outsider.
The Dallas Pavilion explores the relation between the pervasive global image of the city and the art spaces that produce culture to consider how location is embedded in the thinking and creative output of Dallas artists, curators, educators, museum directors and critics.
Anthony Hernandez (born 1947) grew up in a Los Angeles far removed from the idealized Hollywood image of the city.
Against the four tracks, the film showcases images of the city meandering in and out of the camera lens, sometimes flipped upside down or shot from overhead.
The photographs include images of well - known monuments like the Eiffel Tower, the Coliseum and the Golden Gate Bridge as well as seemingly banal images of city streets, gardens, tropical sunsets and apartment buildings.
Therefore, Scher decided to produce silk - screened prints of The World that contained large - scale images of cities, states, and continents blanketed with place names and other information.
Dwyer Kilcollin, b. 1983, lives in Los Angeles Manipulating 2D imagery via algorithm, Kilcollin has garnered attention for her hand - cast relief sculptures that fuse the virtual and material worlds — like her sculptures that recently graced a hillside of Los Angeles and M+B Gallery, where images of city views took the shape of a book, binoculars, and a sweater, or the backpacks she debuted at the Armory Show last spring.
Not one of threatened protesters showed up, and there was a palpable sense of civic pride as a large crowd viewed the handsome and intriguing sculpture which will no doubt soon start showing up in tourist images of the city.
The textured pieces of the maps represent small memories of London captured in one space and are illuminated to create a soft and magical image of the city.
Radar images of the city by the Greater Angkor Project (GAP) revealed that Angkor was carefully designed to collect, store and distribute water.
Each illustration is unique, with subjects as varied as Mexico itself: aerial, wide - angle images of cities; street scenes; up - close images of daily life; and decorative details.
An iconic image of the city of Cologne, featuring the Dom cathedral, is rendered three times in a pointillist style.
I also loved Dave Lewis» Once Removed (2017), in which a 1950s Caribbean migrant seemed to step into modern day Venice, shot in a series of photos from behind, along with images of the city's sellers of bags on the street (predominantly of African heritage), or a close - up of a pair of earrings in a jewellers window, studded with tiny faces of Moors.
In an old gothic church in south London, images of the city are projected on white sheets that surround a worship space.
In an old gothic church in south London, images of the city are projected on white sheets that surround a...
And it was that image of this city - an image of modern Britain in all its diversity, compassion and strength - that was shared around the globe.
«In a short time, PB has changed the image of our city - both internally and externally.
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